Jet 16/32 Sander (Jet are you listening?)

Dear Jet Tools. This is not a review. I love my 16/32 for the work it does. But…are you listening…The right hand clip to hold the paper to the drum is a totally assinine piece of crap. Now before you say operator failure I’ve even had the people where I bought it(WoodCraft) show me how that hook is SUPPOSED to work. Well mine doesn’t! It won’t even fit in the D&^% hole. The only way I can put paper in it is slipping my finger in and prying up the lever.(yes I know how to use a file )NOT an easy trick without three hands.Surely you people have heard this before. You have a precision piece of equipment and a piece of crap for an attachment. For a thousand bucks you should be able to figure a better way to do this.There I feel better.

Well I hate to be one of those people that always chime in saying mine works great although it does. When I bought mine from woodcraft it was still branded Performax not Jet and it still had parts NOT made in China or Taiwan.

I don’t think Jet/Powermatic produces anything any more that’s not made in China or Taiwan. Kinda sad when you look at a tool and think that’s a good one it’s made in Taiwan not China but, that has become the reality!

Jet/Powermatic have good customer service but still it would have been nice NOT to have to call them because my brand new Taiwanese Jet drill press had to much run-out or because my brand new Taiwanese Powermatic table saw fence was defective (3 fences in a row).

Good customer service is nice. A good product made in the country they are being sold in would be even better.

I got rid of my 10-20 in favor of a 16-32 in part because I could not get the paper to fit right. The cost of the Jet brand paper (I know, cut my own) is outrageous and the slightest asymmetry in the install leads to ripping. The 16-32 is better but I agree with everyone here. Jet needs to tweak this and get it right.

And I hate to be the second that chimed in saying mine works well, but I bought the Supermax 19-38. They supplied the same tool, however I don’t need it. I have plenty of room to get my fingers in to hold the clip.

I have an older Performax 22-44 and the right hand clip is a problem. I can’t get my hand in there to set the paper. So I bought the stupid tool and it is even worst. What has worked for me is that I start wraping the paper on the right from the front or out feed side.

No. Clip and run some wood through it to stretch the paper. Thenstretch and re-clip, then tape. The paper gets flexible where it’s very narrow, where it goes in the clip. It seems to pull out of theclip a bit. It’s a catch-22 with the whole idea of wrapping the paperwith the severely tapered ends I reckon.

I have the 22/44 and it works ok. I am able to get my finger down to the clip. I saw someone post that they put papper on from the right side to the left, i have not been able to try this as it is such a habbit. I always thought it would be cool to have the whole thing hook and loop. I am surprised there is not some after market attachment of some sort.